#heaven

True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise. ↗

— Moliere

#compromise #generally #heaven #negotiate #pleasures

Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell. ↗

— George A. Moore

#heaven #hell #remorse

Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#gone #heaven #like #sea #ships

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far! ↗

— John Muir

#coming #day #directions #every #far

The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

#because #come #earth #heaven #kingdom

But my most favourite pursuit, after my daily exertions at the Foundry, was Astronomy. There were frequently clear nights when the glorious objects in the Heavens were seen in most attractive beauty and brilliancy. ↗

— James Nasmyth

#astronomy #attractive #beauty #brilliancy #clear

I think we're in a disposable world and 'Stairway to Heaven' is one of the things that hasn't quite been thrown away yet. ↗

— Robert Plant

#been #disposable #hasn #heaven #i

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise. ↗

— Plato

#away #become #earth #far #fly

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. ↗

— Plautus

#better #friend #heaven #itself #nothing

Heaven is high, Earth Wide. Bitter between them flies my sorrow. ↗

— Li Po

#bitter #earth #flies #heaven #high